Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

According to a recent reply from management at University Hospital Kerry, the current waiting time to see the rheumatologist is three years. This is crazy. Our health system was never as bad. To have old people who are crippled with arthritis waiting this long to see a rheumatologist is an outrage. I ask the Taoiseach to think about an elderly person crippled and in pain being told that he or she will have to wait for three years. It is an outrage.

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